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>>> float('inf') Fixed in Python 3, but still. There are more of these things.

Enlightenment's Terminology[1] supports a few fancy things including image previews, animated cursors (nyancat is a builtin theme...) and local file links. More impressively, it ac…

Because it varies widely :). It is entirely based on your query -- whichever source is detected as best for that type of query (i.e. Yandex is better at handling symbols, Bing's ad…

In the very beginning, Gabriel was more focused on the instant answers and hadn't thought much of privacy -- users brought it up after he launched it on HN.

1. Region can be changed in DuckDuckGo's settings, for more localized results -- by default it is set to "No region," so there is nothing localized in the results. 2. Bing is one o…

A lot of those plugins are written in client-side Javascript, so the bot can't (easily) work with those.

Not sure what you mean there -- these are two completely different things. That disables using a service (Google or Bing) to autocomplete. It does not affect what extensions like t…

There is nothing malicious going on there. It does that so you can get instant answers where there would normally be auto-completion. This is covered very nicely in a paragraph in …

Yup, no offices in India, but contractors are distributed worldwide and work over the wire. :)

You can type "r:xx" in your query to set the region, in any case. (e.g. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bonjour+r%3Afr )

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+duckdu... Still works, it's just harder to type and less reliable.

No, there are over 50 sources: http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s... And they aren't just copied verbatim (with the same ranking, etc), but are re-ranked …

You can download plugins from github, but note that they are under GPL as far as I know. EDIT: Nope, perl5 license.

They exist for sites you've never been to before, you don't have to do anything to a fresh browser install to make them work, they are browser-indepenent (I don't use or like chrom…

No, they will be native.

Not sure what uservoice is, but there is also an official trello board: https://trello.com/board/duckduckgo-open-source-plugins/4f08...

Well for one, results come from far more sources than /just/ bing and yahoo, and they are also put through a custom algorithm. Then there is the 0-click info, official sites, etc. …

It uses Yahoo, Bing, and a number of other sources (but not google). See http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s... :)

There has been no PR firm involved as far as I know, it is being spread by fans and advertising efforts by the founder. In my experience the results are almost always more relevant…